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LibriVox recording of News From Nowhere by William Morris. Read by Elizabeth Klett.
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work. In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism; the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communistic society. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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This audio is part of the collection: The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
It also belongs to collections: Audio Books & Poetry; Community Audio
Artist/Composer: William Morris
Date: 2011-11-01
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audio; morris; utopia; fantasy
Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0
| Audio Files | 128Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 |
| 01 - Chapter 1, Discussion and Bed |
5.7 MB
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3.4 MB
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2.9 MB
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| 02 - Chapter 2, A Morning Bath |
15.5 MB
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9.2 MB
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7.7 MB
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| 03 - Chapter 3, The Guest House and Breakfast Therein |
17.7 MB
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10.5 MB
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8.9 MB
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| 04 - Chapter 4, A Market By the Way |
6.1 MB
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3.6 MB
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3.0 MB
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| 05 - Chapter 5, Children on the Road |
12.9 MB
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7.6 MB
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6.4 MB
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| 06 - Chapter 6, A Little Shopping |
13.7 MB
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8.1 MB
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6.8 MB
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| 07 - Chapter 7, Trafalgar Square |
14.1 MB
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8.3 MB
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7.0 MB
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| 08 - Chapter 8, An Old Friend |
6.9 MB
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4.1 MB
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3.5 MB
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| 09 - Chapter 9, Concerning Love |
22.0 MB
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13.1 MB
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11.0 MB
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| 10 - Chapter 10, Questions and Answers |
22.0 MB
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13.2 MB
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11.0 MB
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| 11 - Chapter 11, Concerning Government |
7.9 MB
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4.7 MB
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4.0 MB
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| 12 - Chapter 12, Concerning the Arrangement of Life |
10.4 MB
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6.3 MB
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5.2 MB
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| 13 - Chapter 13, Concerning Politics and Chapter 14, How Matters Are Arranged |
11.0 MB
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6.6 MB
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5.5 MB
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| 14 - Chapter 15, On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society |
16.5 MB
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9.9 MB
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8.3 MB
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| 15 - Chapter 16, Dinner in the Hall of Bloomsbury Market |
7.9 MB
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4.7 MB
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3.9 MB
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| 16 - Chapter 17, Part 1, How the Change Came |
28.6 MB
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17.0 MB
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| 17 - Chapter 17, Part 2, How the Change Came |
25.3 MB
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15.3 MB
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12.7 MB
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| 18 - Chapter 18, The Beginning of the New Life |
10.2 MB
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6.1 MB
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| 19 - Chapter 19, The Drive Back to Hammersmith |
10.1 MB
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5.9 MB
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| 20 - Chapter 20, The Hammersmith Guest House Again, and Chapter 21, Going Up the River |
8.4 MB
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5.0 MB
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| 21 - Chapter 22, Hampton Court and a Praiser of Past Times |
19.0 MB
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| 22 - Chapter 23, An Early Morning By Runnymede |
10.9 MB
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6.5 MB
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5.5 MB
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| 23 - Chapter 24, Up the Thames: The Second Day |
17.0 MB
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10.0 MB
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8.5 MB
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| 24 - Chapter 25, The Third Day on the Thames |
8.2 MB
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4.9 MB
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4.1 MB
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| 25 - Chapter 26, The Obstinate Refusers |
8.4 MB
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4.9 MB
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4.2 MB
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| 26 - Chapter 27, The Upper Waters |
20.6 MB
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12.2 MB
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10.3 MB
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| 27 - Chapter 28, The Little River |
7.7 MB
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4.5 MB
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3.8 MB
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| 28 - Chapter 29, A Resting-Place on the Upper Thames |
9.2 MB
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5.4 MB
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4.6 MB
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| 29 - Chapter 30, The Journey's End |
11.0 MB
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6.5 MB
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5.5 MB
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| 30 - Chapter 31, An Old House Amongst New Folk |
9.9 MB
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5.8 MB
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5.0 MB
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| 31 - Chapter 32, The Feast's Beginning - The End |
12.1 MB
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7.1 MB
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6.1 MB
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Reviewer:
TheBookworm -
Subject:
News From Nowhere
The political roots of the Arts and Crafts movement are clearly shown in Morris' utopian vision of a society that has left commercialism and private property behind and in which art is embodied in craftsmanship.
Although I have always admired Morris' design work, I had found his stylised romances a bit of a slog. So I was happily suprised to find that NFN (1890) is lively and well executed. It's a far easier read than Bellamy's famous 1887 yawner "Looking Backward."
As usual, Elizabeth Klett does an outstanding job of interpreting the written word with perfect enunciation and 99% accuracy in pronouncing those arcane English place names. Many thanks for your work, Gloriana. It kept me sane last whilst burning the remains of many dinosaurs (i.e., driving) the damned M1 between here and Luton last week.
TheBookworm (Manchester, UK)